Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Science (Life)
I am a Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Sciences: Life Science and Programme Leader for the BSc Healthcare Science Practitioner (Life).
I am Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Biomedical Scientist and have 30 years experience of working in NHS diagnostic laboratories.
During this time I have mentored many trainee Biomedical Scientists, MSc students, and those undertaking IBMS Specialist Portfolio. I am an IBMS Registration Portfolio External Assessor.
More recently, I was the national programme lead for microbiology/infection control training for Anatomical Pathology Technologists (APTs) and was an associate specialist lecturer in Biomedical Science at Teesside University.
For 18 years, I was employed as Senior Biomedical Scientist in Microbiology at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, working for the NHS since 1993.
My experience and knowledge are in the fields of clinical diagnostic microbiology, antimicrobial testing, and Infection, Prevention and Control.
I am a registered Chartered Scientist and also a Chartered Manager.
Teaching and supervision
I teach and supervise in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing including BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science and BSc (Hons) Healthcare Sciences: Life Sciences.
I am the module leader for Healthcare Science (Life) apprenticeship placement module HCS230, the apprenticeship healthcare science research investigation HCS326 and also HCA102 Healthcare Science Associate Work-Based Learning Module, Year 1.
Research
My areas of research have covered the use of novel microbial therapeutics, Clostridioides difficile, investigating new hospital disinfection technologies and leadership and motivation in an NHS diagnostic laboratory.
Warde, E., Davies, E. and Ward, A. (2019) ‘Control of a multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak’, British Journal of Nursing, 28(4), pp. 242–248. doi:10.12968/bjon.2019.28.4.242.
Ward, A. and Nwankwo, E., 2018. Treating Clostridium difficile infection. [online] Thebiomedicalscientist.net.
- Antibiotic resistance
- Microbiome
- Infection control
- Clostridioides difficile Infection
- Sepsis
- Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science (FIBMS)
- Registrant of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Member of Chartered Management Institute (MCMI)
- Chartered Scientist (CSci)
- Chartered Manager (CMgr)